Heinemann, Ltd. n.d. 219 p. 21 cm. Essay #47 is “The Last Bow” pp. 203-07.
4B.2 Booth, J.B. Palmy Days. London: The Richards Press, 1957. 232 p., 22 cm. dust jacket. Recollections include Chapter I, “The London of Sherlock Holmes” pp. 17-21. 4B.3 Capek, Karel. In praise of newspapers and other essays on the margin of literature. Translated by M. and R. Weatherall. New York: Arts, Inc., 1951. 138 p, 19 cm. Includes “Holmesiana, or About Detective Stories” pp. 101-122. Vincent Starrett’s autograph on fly-leaf. Dust jacket.
4B.4 Copi, Irving M. Introduction to Logic. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. (Seventh printing). 472 p, 21 cm. References to A. Conan Doyle and to Sherlock Holmes. 4B.5 Graham, Harry. More misrepresentative men. Pictures by Malcolm Strauss. New York: Fox, Duffield & Co., 1905. Includes verses on “Sherlock Holmes,” p. 98-108. 17 cm.
4B.6 Haycraft, Howard, ed. The art of the mystery story, a collection of critical essays. Edited and with a commentary by Howard Haycraft. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Volume includes The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett, Watson was a Woman by Rex Stout, etc.
4B.7 Haycraft, Howard. Murder for pleasure. The life and times of the detective story. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1941. pp xviii, 408. 21 cm. From the library of Eleanor Roosevelt, with bookplate. Author’s autographed presentation. September 1941.
4B.8 Honce, Charles. Books and Ghosts. A fresh unveiling of a newspaperman’s literary preferences and friendships. With a true story of crime in Connecticut by the whilom poet
John T[racy] Winterich. Mount Vernon, NY: S.A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press. Dec. 1948. 104 pp. 26 cm. xiv. This is No. 35 of 111 copies. [C5347]
4B.9 Honce, Charles. For loving a book / further news adventures among bins and bibliophiles. With an overture by H.L. Mencken. Mount Vernon: The Golden Eagle Press. Designed and printed by S.A. Jacobs. 1945. pp xxiv, 116. 25 cm. This is no. 86 of 111 copies. Autographed: Emmanuella Honce / Charles Honce / for Jeff Morse / Be a Sherlock Holmes addict with us. [C5348]
4B.9.1 Honce, Charles. The public papers of a bibliomaniac. Mount Vernon, NY: The Eagle Press, 1942. Contains articles on Sherlock Holmes. Prelude by Ellery Queen. [C5350]
4B.10 Honce, Charles. Happy Holidays 1957-1958, from Sherlock Holmes and
Emmanuella and Charles Honce… Folder, 4 pp. (1 sheet folded for 8 surfaces). 22 cm. initialed by C.H. In envelope. [C14858]
4B.11 Honce, Charles. Murder on Beekman Place. Privately printed for the friends of Emmanuella and Charles Honce at Christmastide 1951, Beekman Place, New York. S.A. Jacobs: The Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon. 8 pp. 27 cm. Pamphlet. With paper cover and fly-leaves. In envelope.
4B.12 Honce, Charles. A Sherlock Holmes Birthday and Other bookish stories conceived in the form of news. By Charles Honce. New York: Privately printed, 1938. S.A. Jacobs: The Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, NY. Signed copy #87 of 100 copies, to Mr. West, Feb. 22, 1939. 224 pp. 25 cm. Enclosure: Note to Mr. West, March 14, 1939, 30 Beekman Place, New York City, from Chas. Honce signed.
4B.13 Honce, Charles. Tales from a Beekman Hill Library, and other news stories… Drawings by Joe Cunningham and Milt Morris. Mount Vernon, NY: S.A. Jacobs Golden Eagle Press. Christmas 1952. This is No. 15 of 100 copies. Autographed by Emmanuella and Charles Honce. 128 p. 26 cm. Bookplate of Herbert F. West. [C5352]
4B.14 Honce, Charles. To talk of many things. A book lover’s opinions on a lot of other subjects including eating, drinking, traveling, decorating, entertaining, and dressing and undressing. With an inside job on the Mandarin of Manhattan by Christopher Morley and cartoons by Joe Cunninham. Imprinted by S.A. Jacobs at his Golden Eagle Press in Mount Vernon. 1950. This is No. 36 of 88 copies. Autograph by Vincent Starrett. 64 pp. 23 cm. [C5353]
4B.15 Knox, Ronald A. Essays in Satire. London: Sheed and Ward, Oct. 1928 (First edition) pp. x, 287. 18 cm. Includes “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes” pp. 145-175.
4B.15.1 la Cour, Tage. Mord I Biblioteket. (Sallskapet Bokvannerna, Stockholm, 1953). 84 pp 20 cm. x 12 cm. Paper covers.
4B.16 Mason, Walt. Walt Mason His Book. With an introduction by Irvin S. Cobb. Illustrated. New York: Barse and Hopkins, 1916. 189 p., 19 cm. p. 155 “Sherlock Holmes” (a prose poem)
4B.17 Milne, A.A. By way of introduction. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1929. (First edition) pp. 208, 8 (book ads). Dust jacket. Autographed by A.A. Milne for Charles Wilson. Bookstamp of Montgomery Evans, and note by him on back inside cover, 1952. “Dr. Watson speaks out” pp. 91-100. “Crime” pp. 38-42.
4B.18 Milne, A.A. If I May. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. First published. pp. viii, 184. Essays are reprinted with alterations and additions… The Sphere, The Outlook, The Daily News, The Sunday Express, and the American Vanity Fair. “The Watson Touch” pp. 141-144.
4B.19 Morley, Christopher. Streamlines. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. 1936. With paper dust jacket. 290 p. 22 cm. (This collection of essays by Morley contains items relating to Holmes and Watson)
4B.20 Morley, Christopher. The Ironing Board, 1949. Doubleday & Co. (This collection of essays by Morley contains items relating to Holmes and Watson)
4B.21 Morris, Sir Harold. Back View. Illustrated. London: Peter Davies, 1960. 244 p. 22 cm. Autobiography contains a chapter VII, “Sherlock Holmes” pp. 48-56.
4B.22 Murch, A.E. The development of the detective novel. London: Peter Owen, Ltd, 1958. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. 272 pp. 22 cm. Hardcover and paper dust jacket. 4B.23 Queen, Ellery, ed. Twentieth Century Detective Stories, edited by Ellery Queen, illustrated by Seymour Nydorf. Cleveland, Ohio, the World Publishing Co., 1948. (The Living Library). 14 stories and Ellery Queen’s list of the 101 most important books of detective-crime short stories and commentary including section on “The Doyle Decade”. 288 pp., 19 cm.
4B.24 Roberts, S.C. Argonaut Press. Essays of the Year 1929-1930. Published at the Office of the Argonaut Press, London, Oct. 1, 1930. This is No. 178 of 250 copies. pp xviii, 326. First edition. Autographed by the Editor and by J.C. Squire. Pp. 113-132: S.C. Roberts, “Prolegomena to the life of Dr. Watson,” from Life and Letters [21 Feb. 1930] 4B.25 NO ITEM WITH THIS CALL NUMBER
4B.26 Sayers, Dorothy L. Unpopular opinions. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1946. 190 pp. 20 cm. (first British edition) (Includes Studies in Sherlock Holmes—five critical essays) Enclosure: A.L.S. from J.O. Harland July 1, 1958, Chapel Hill, NC, to Mrs. Cameron about this book.
4B.27 Starrett, Vincent. Books Alive. A profane chronicle of literary endeavor and literary misdemeanor, with an informal index by Christopher Morley. New York:
Random House, 1940. First edition. Autograph presentation copy for Montgomery Evans, Nov. 14, 1941. pp. 360 pp. 23 cm. Clipping pasted into back fly-leaves. Enclosures: A.L.S. from Vincent Starrett, 29 Jan. 1950, to Montgomery Evans, 2 pp. & Carnegie Bookshop ad for this vol.
4B.28 Starrett, Vincent. Books and Bipeds. New York: Argus Books, Inc, 1947. (First edition). pp. 268. 23 cm. (Most of the paragraphs in this collection appeared first in Starrett’s column “Books Alive,” in the Chicago Sunday Tribune)
4B.29 Starrett, Vincent. Born in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence. Norman: Univ. of Okla. Press, 1965. Illustrations. pp xii, 326. 23 cm. Autographed presentation copy from the author to Mary S. Cameron, 11 Jan. 1966.
4B.30 Starrett, Vincent. Bookman’s Holiday: The Private Satisfactions of an incurable collector. New York: Random House, 1942. First Printing. Published simultaneously in Canada. Pp. 312. 23 cm. (Some chapters previously published in various journals) etc. 4B.31 Starrett, Vincent. Persons from Porlock and other interruptions. Chicago:
Normandie House, 1938. 97p, 22cm. (edition limited to 399 copies, autographed by the author) dust jacket. Includes an essay on “Sherlock Holmes and After” pp. 61-64. 4B.32 Steele, Frederic Dorr. The Colophon. New Graphic Series. Volume I, Number Three, September 1939, New York, NY. Contains: Steele, Frederic Dorr. “Veteran Illustrator Goes Reminiscent,” (pp. not numbered) Illustrated. 27 cm.
4B.33 NO ITEM WITH THIS CALL NUMBER
4B.34 Thomson, H. Douglas. Masters of Mystery / A Study of the detective story. London: Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. 1931. 288p, 22cm. (with index of detective stories and index of authors)
4B.35 [Times of London] Fourth Leaders from The Times 1950. A selection from the past twelve months. London: The Times Publishing Co., Limited. Hardback, dust jacket, 177p, 22 cm. Contains: “The Schoolboys’ Holmes” pp. 82-83.
4B.36 Wallace, Irving. The fabulous originals. Lives of extraordinary people who inspired memorable characters in fiction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 318p, 22 cm. Includes “The Real Sherlock Holmes… true story of Dr. Joseph Bell…” pp. 22-45. 4B.37 Whittemore, Reed. Heroes & Heroines. Poems by Reed Whittemore. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. (copyright 1946). 80 pp. 21 cm. Includes “The Strange Case in Baker Street”
4B.38 Wilson, Edmund. Classics and Commercials / A literary chronicle of the forties. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, Feb. 1951 (second printing). 534 p, x p. “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound,” pp. 266-274. Feb. 17, 1945. 4B.39 Woollcott, Alexander. Long, long ago. New York: The Viking Press, 1943. (From the library of Eleanor Roosevelt, with bookplate, estate label, and rubber stamp and autograph of John A. Roosevelt.) 21 cm. 280 pp. Includes items from several magazines from 1931 to 1943. “The Baker Street Irregulars” from the New Yorker, Dec. 29, 1934. 4B.40 Van Doren, Mark, editor. The New Invitation to Learning. New York: The New Home Library, 1942. 436 p. 20 cm. Based on the CBS radio programming. Contains a broadcast discussion of Sherlock Holmes by Mark Van Doren, Rex Stout, and Jacques Barzun. [Rec’d Barzun-Taylor gift—Sept. 20, 1975].